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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1889
Page
5
The notice highlights Leaping Baney as a grocer in Barrow Block Vr and Mrs Charley Oliver welcoming a baby boy, plus regional mentions of merchants preparing for summer trade, new buildings, and local social events. It notes the Alliance store plans and town leadership changes, with various personal updates and business ventures across Americus.
In a Georgia gossip column from Macon, Kilrain and Sullivan are mentioned amid rural plantation work in Sumter County. The exchange cites Cliff Clay as a rumored top fighter who could defeat both if trained, with local legislators joking about boxing prowess. A Louisiana letter praises crystallized senses with high praise and soft brilliance.
The Americus council met July 22 1889 with Mayor Felder present. The Street Committee proposed amending code to ban riding on sidewalks except crossings for bicycles and wheelbarrows, keeping pedestrians’ rights. A transfer of city lighting obligations to Mercantile Trust was approved, with payment terms of 8600 annually for 20 years. Bills to pay included Harrold Johnson & Co and others. several permit requests and referrals were also handled before adjournment.
Monday morning pipe inspector Clay broke dirt on College street for the city sewer project. Seventy five to a hundred workers were to be hired but a prestart strike led to a compromise of 50 cents per day for eleven hours. Fifteen men agreed to work while others dispersed. Post–Wednesday wages rise to 50 cents a day, sunup to sundown. Also notes on the 8. A. M. Georgia Southern train and conductors Holt and Davis handling a large crowd, plus cabinet price offers.
Sheriff Troy Holder of Lumpkin visited the city yesterday and Policeman Tom James of Albany represented the white delegation. Mrs. Leola Brunner née Mayo travels to Acworth for the summer. Mr. A. B. Thompson thanks for a generous basket of pears sent to this office. Dorma-Lotion promoted for skin cures.
Mrs WInslow s soothing byru up should always be used for child reateathing. To my coineeths the child, as the pain cures, wind colle, and to the tet remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty five centa per bottle.
A young negro man, Bob Freeman, aged twenty two, entered a city bar on Thursday and taunted a black patron for a drinking contest. Freeman drank eight gills of rye in under ten minutes and then attempted to go home, last seen weaving on his route. Skin eruptions indicate poor blood health. Swift's Specific is recommended by a local advert. Judge Miller and wife of Buena Vista visit Jackson Street.
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